Each year at the SEMA Show, Omix-ADA, the world’s largest independent manufacturer and wholesaler of Jeep parts and accessories, brings and displays part of its historic Jeep collection under a specific theme. This year the theme is “rare vintage civilian model Jeeps” and the star is a 1946 Willys CJ-2A Farm Jeep.
According to Omix-ADA, the vehicle is one of the earliest examples of a post-war Jeep. It was marketed as the “All-Around Farm Work-Horse.”
To maximize traction in farming terrain, the Jeep rides on eight wheels — two at each corner. It’s a virtual Swiss Army Knife of farm implements with a side-arm mower bar, a Canfield folding wrecker tow bar and a rear-mounted Newgren buzz saw with table.
The display at SEMA also includes a 1947 Willys CJ-2A fire truck, 1955 Willys pickup, 1959 Jeep FC-150 cab-over truck, 1978 Jeep J-10 pickup (with only 2,440 miles), and a 1982 Jeep CJ-7 fire truck.
Omix-ADA founder and president Al Azadi started the collection to preserve the Jeep heritage. The collection has grown with the addition of many of the Jeeps owned by Mark Smith, the late founder of the Jeep Jamboree, and is now housed in a museum-style facility at Omix-ADA headquarters in Suwanee, Georgia. The collection is open to visitors by appointment.
interesting..i had heard that there were many surplus jeeps that needed a home. i like this adaptation with these, the other just as interesting were the model A fords that the post office used to deliver the mail, on rural routes where the snow and dirt roads are hard to navigate.
Like them all in the late 59’s am
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